“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” - Woody Guthrie

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The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own Guinness world record for largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 300-step behemoth that flawlessly accomplished the simple task of blowing up and popping a balloon.

The team spent more than 5,000 hours constructing the machine that accomplished every task ever assigned in the competition's 25-year history, including peeling an apple, juicing an orange, toasting bread, making a hamburger, changing a light bulb, loading a CD and sharpening a pencil.

Posted Apr-11-2012 By

thevoice213

Posted Apr-11-2012 By

JStoy

The object is to make the most overly complicated machine that you can build, and it's sole purpose is something extremely ordinary or dumb. It's supposed to be about how silly we can be. Sometimes they're good but this one is not that good imo